Daniel Day-Lewis quotes
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“Are you here? Are you always here? I miss you. I think about you all the time. I hear your voice say my name when I dream and when I wake up, there are tears streaming down my face. I just miss you, it's as simple as that. I want to tell you everything. I don't understand what you're saying. I can't hear your voice.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“- Johanna: Where have you gone, Reynolds. There's nothing I can say to get your attention aimed back at me, is there?
- Reynolds Woodcock: I cannot begin my day with a confrontation, please. I'm delivering the dress today, and I can't take up space with confrontation. I simply don't have time for confrontations.” - From the movie: Phantom Thread
“I think it's the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heartache.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“- Reynolds Woodcock: Is there something I'm unaware of? Because as far as I can remember, all I've done is to dress her beautifully.
- Cyril: I don't think that matters to some people, I think they want what is fashionable and chic.
- Reynolds Woodcock: Chic? Oh, don't you start using that filthy little word, Chic! Whoever invented that ought to...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: My Left Foot
“I've had nothing but Platonic love all my life. Do you know what I say? Fuck Plato! And fuck all love that's not a hundred percent commitment!”
- From the movie: Gangs of New York
“- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: I don't see no Americans. I see trespassers, Irish harps. Do a job for a nickel what a nigger does for a dime and a white man used to get a quarter for. What have they done? Name one thing they've contributed.
- William 'Boss' Tweed: Votes.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: Votes, you say? They vote how the archbishop...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: There Will Be Blood
- From the movie: The Last of the Mohicans
“No matter what occurs, I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you.”
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“There are times when I... I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“As I think you know, Alma, I prefer my asparagus with oil and salt. And knowing this, you've prepared the asparagus with butter. Now, I can imagine in certain circumstances being able to pretend that I like it made this way. Right now, I'm just admiring my own gallantry for eating it the way you've prepared it.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“A house that doesn't change is a dead house.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“When I was a boy, I started to hide things in the lining of the garments. Things only I knew were there. Secrets.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“- Alma: I don't know what I'm doing here. I, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm just waiting around like a idiot for you.
- Reynolds Woodcock: This was an ambush, Alma. To what purpose?
- Alma: This is not... I know it's not going as I expected, I, I didn't mean these things to come out. I'm sorry, but it was meant to be nice.
- Reynolds...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“You're not my son. You're just a little piece of competition.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“Marriage would make me deceitful and I don't ever want that.”
- From the movie: The Last of the Mohicans
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“- Reynolds Woodcock: Maybe one day you'll change your taste, Alma.
- Alma: Maybe not.
- Reynolds Woodcock: Maybe you have no taste.
- Alma: Maybe I like my own taste.
- Reynolds Woodcock: Yes. Just enough to get you into trouble.
- Alma: Perhaps I'm looking for trouble.” - From the movie: Phantom Thread
“You look beautiful. Really. Very beautiful. You're making me extremely hungry.”
- From the movie: Lincoln
“All we've done is show the world that democracy isn't chaos. That there is a great, invisible strength in a people's union.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“There is an air of quiet death in this house and I do not like the way it smells.”
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“- Reynolds Woodcock: I feel as if I've been looking for you for a very long time.
- Alma: You found me. Whatever you do, do it carefully.”
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